AI Daily Brief — 15 March 2025
A genuinely quiet Saturday. The seven-week White House AI Action Plan RFI closed at midnight after collecting over 10,000 industry, academic and civil-society submissions. Beyond that, the AI press sat in the pre-GTC holding pattern with no model drops, no big funding rounds, and no notable arxiv landmark.
Top stories
- White House AI Action Plan RFI closes at 11:59 PM. The seven-week Request for Information issued by OSTP and the NITRD National Coordination Office on Trump’s AI Action Plan closed Saturday night. The RFI ultimately attracted 8,755 submissions (later cited as 10,000+) from industry groups, AI labs, academia, civil society and think tanks — covering chips, datacenters, open-source, IP, energy, safety standards and governance. The final Action Plan was directed by Trump’s January AI Executive Order and slated for delivery by July 2025. via Covington Global Policy Watch
- Pre-GTC weekend holding pattern. March 15 fell on the Saturday before NVIDIA GTC 2025 (Mar 17-21 in San Jose), with Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Tuesday Mar 18. No major model or product drops landed — the industry was effectively waiting on Blackwell Ultra, the Vera Rubin roadmap, Isaac GR00T N1 and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform queued for the keynote. via NVIDIA
Quiet corners
Saturday. No frontier-lab announcements, no notable open-source releases, no arxiv landmark, no funding rounds verified for the date. The previous five days had absorbed the news budget — OpenAI Responses API + Agents SDK on Mar 11, Gemma 3 + Gemini Robotics on Mar 12, Cohere Command A + Sesame CSM-1B on Mar 13, Apple Siri leak on Mar 14 — and the press cycle paused before NVIDIA Monday morning.
By the numbers
- 10,000+ — total submissions to the White House AI Action Plan RFI
- 7 weeks — duration of the comment window
- 2 days — until GTC 2025 opens; 3 days until Jensen’s keynote
- Most-mentioned entity: White House OSTP
Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 15 March 2025.